Toothpaste

[dicko1]

My five month woke up with two little cute teeth this morning and i seem to remember somebody saying start brushing once a tooth appears. I have a little brush i got in a grooming set at birth but what toothpaste do you use. kids/normal/none x

a teensy blob of baby toothpaste. it's a milder mint version of grown up stuff.

is there a specific one for babies?

Baby toothpaste is called milkteeth. It's generally on the bottom shelf at the supermarket underneath adult toothpaste.

What about rinsing their mouth after, how's that done?

I used a cottonbud (my mum's always said toothbrushes are rough on their gums) with a tiny bit of Milkteeth toothpaste on when my son cut his first teeth. Then give a few sips of water in a bottle to rinse. I started using a toothbrush properly when he had about 4 or 5 full teeth.

moomin you use that little an amount they don't need rinsing.

You don't need toothpaste at this stage.

You use a smear of toothpaste and they don't need to rinse, adults shouldn't rinse either apparently.

I got toothpaste free from hv and dentist, maybe that's a Scotland thing thou

I think it depends on the water in your area, but our HVs advised using adult toothpaste. Something to do with the fluoride content.

Advice is use a tiny tiny bit of adult toothpaste (not whitening ones etc) and you shouldn't rinse. Not even as an adult. It just washes the fluoride off.

they give so much different advise theu make me more confused x

Your hv is the person to ask. It seems that different areas have differing fluoride levels in the water. I brushed ds's teeth twice a day, but only one of them using toothpaste, which was milk toothpaste, without rinsing. Dentist said this was fine.

ive just gave her a call shes reccomended a tiny amount of adult toothpaste with no rinsing.